Dnia 10-11-2004, śro o godzinie 15:24 +0000, Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro
napisał:
> > I've been hacking on a small panel-applet (a simple screen resolution
> > switcher applet). Since I'm not that familiar with autotools, I decided
> > to use pygnome-hello as a base to get it working. I noticed that there
> > is no license file in the pygnome-hello directory, though. I guess it's
> > supposed to be in the public domain (probably GPL)?
Small note here, GPL is definitely NOT public domain. It's one of more
restrictive open source licences in fact.
> Maybe it's noted
> > somewhere else, but I couldn't find it at least. A copyright statement
> > (or the standard GPL header) in the non-trivial files might be a good
> > thing as well?
>
> The will think of license later. It may require you to pay me a large
> fee and assign all your code rights to me... ;-)
>
> Seriously, I guess a copyright of some sort would be interesting. But
> I think GPL is a bit too restrictive for example programs. Anyone else
> have any suggestion? BSD? Artistic? "I am not a lawyer"...
I believe example code shouldn't have any restrictions besides maybe
authorship attribution. So revised BSD (without advertising clause)
sounds good here, Artistic is AFAIK very similar in spirit, should be
good too.
> >
> > Another question related to licenses. I modified the following files for
> > my project:
> >
> > autogen.sh
> > configure.ac
> > Makefile.am
> >
> > Which is the standard way to indicate that I based these files on the
> > work of Gustavo Carneiro (he's in the AUTHOR file at least)?
Put notice in comments in these files, or you can mention that in
AUTHORS file, if you feel that that portion is significant part of your
app.
Cheers,
Maciej
--
"Tautologizm to coś tautologicznego"
Maciej Katafiasz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://mathrick.org
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